This seemed to good not to share, no idea where I found it...

LETTER FROM A MOTHER TO A CHILD:

"My dear child, the day you see I’m getting old, I ask you to please be patient, but most of all, try to understand what I’m going through.

If when we talk, I repeat the same thing a thousand times, don’t interrupt to say: “You said the same thing a minute ago”... Just listen, please. Try to remember the times when you were little and I would read the same story night after night until you would fall asleep.

When I don’t want to take a bath, don’t be mad and don’t embarrass me. Remember when I had to run after you making excuses and trying to get you to take a shower when you were just a child?

When you see how ignorant I am when it comes to new technology, give me the time to learn and don’t look at me that way... remember, honey, I patiently taught you how to do many things like eating appropriately, getting dressed, combing your hair and dealing with life’s issues every day... the day you see I’m getting old, I ask you to please be patient, but most of all, try to understand what I’m going through.

If I occasionally lose track of what we’re talking about, give me the time to remember, and if I can’t, don’t be nervous, impatient or arrogant. Just know in your heart that the most important thing for me is to be with you.

And when my old, tired legs don’t let me move as quickly as before, give me your hand the same way that I offered mine to you when you first walked.

When those days come, don’t feel sad... just be with me, and understand me while I get to the end of my life with love.

I’ll cherish and thank you for the gift of time and joy we shared. With a big smile and the huge love I’ve always had for you, I just want to say, I love you...

- Unknown

Mid Summer

Every year for the past few years, I have said I should just take the summer off from working mostly indoors, and spend more time outside. Well this year I am doing just that. Not because I finally found the time, but because circumstances are such that I could not do this summer what I did the past summers. I lost about 8 weeks of the summer, and now I may as well just enjoy the great outdoors and forget all the stuff on my list of things to do.. Just burned the list, and will not be making a new one till maybe mid September...
  This may just become a habit, I would have liked to have spent a good deal of the summer in the screen house reading.. but the house is being painted this year, and so the screen house did not go up. Now it is a bit to late to get it up, and there is still painting to be done, so it would just be in the way.
  Funny all that stuff that I thought I just HAD to get done, does not really matter that I did not get to it. Sometimes we just have to take a few steps back and take a look and see if that stuff we thought was so important  REALLY is.

twists and turns

Ever notice how life seems to take some really interesting twists and turns?
 Like I had so many different plans for this year, than what actually took place so far..
.Made a good start on decluttering the house, and decided on a rummage sale to get rid of the stuff, and bring a bit more money into the kitty...priced all the stuff, put it all on tables in the garage just in case it rained.
The day after I put the add in the paper I got a notice in the mail that they were tearing up our street. They were starting on the first day of my rummage... So much for that! Still did it, cause it was in the paper....
Well still have 90% of the stuff, so have to add that on to my list of fall things to do, or save it till next spring.....Then the plan was to get so much more stuff done in this house, like completly redo a room....hurt my back, so that plan went out the window.
.Half the year is gone, I wonder what the other half will bring???
Plus this has been the year....so far... of wind and rain....
Oh well I guess it could be worse.................................

hello again, it has been a long time...

So much time has passed since I signed in here, Spring finally did come, actually I think it is summer that we are missing now. Spring seems to want to hang around longer than it should, we do have the occasional warm day, but mostly it is chilly and just rain, rain, rain.....
As for getting a whole lot done, well that is not happening either, well not work and productive things that is...I have done a lot of reading, caught up on a few magazines that have piled up. Cut all my subscriptions down to 2. Used to have more, but when they are still in the plastic sleeve after a year it is clear that I did not have time to read them, and now the news is so old, that there is no real reason to even take off the plastic.
When I started this blog, my ambition was to just have a place to journal most days...and now I see that months have passed and I have not revisited... I did have a time when I could not get on line, and then another time when circumstances made it impossible to be on a computer, and I sort of fell out of love with the computer. I found other fun things to replace it and just never seemed to find the time to return.
If you let it the internet can take over your life, and for a time it had...but now it is not that much of a draw anymore...I have other here and now things to do, and even though I have made lots of friends on the internet, I can also talk to those friends through other forms of communication. With the internet, I have to have both hands on a keyboard, with other forms, I can do other things while I chat.
Not saying that I will be abandoning my blogs, no that will not happen, just saying that more of my day will be devoted to other things and not fanatically attached to the internet....

The Pie Wins

As I have mentioned on  my other blog...I have spent a ton of time trying to get back into my blogs. I had the right email and password...well sort of the right password... I just did not write it down correctly..I must have had it in my head that I needed the shift key for a few of the keys I was using, BUT when I wrote it down I did not write it that way.
You know how you think you did something one way, and then find out you didn't? That sort of thing.
So now that I have solved this hurdle, the only thing I have left to do is get all my stuff done before my internet get shut off while they re-do the wires. They said it should be done in a couple hours. Then I need to get it set up... I could let the techs do it and pay big bucks, or I could get my son to do it and bake him a pie...I think the pie wins!
Even though it is past Thanksgiving, I will be making a pumpkin pie, his favorite...

December Aready?

Well this year, I think I am ahead...or at least I am not behind. Don't know how it happened that I actually caught up...maybe it happened because a just burned my to do list and started over with just the important things.
My old list was getting so long, and some of the things had been on there so long, that I was not even interested in doing them anymore.
Now I only have 3 things on the list, cookies, clean and decorate, and cards....then I have nothing to do that I really do not want to do....
Feels GREAT!

Almost the end of November already

Here it is almost the end of November already.
In some ways I am so far behind I will probably not even halfway catch up to where I would like to be, and in other ways I am really ahead. I have a project done that did not have to be done till May of 2014. But I haven't finished the list of things that I wanted to get done today.
Funny how things work out that way sometimes. I could have left the project till April, but it was all just sitting here begging to be done, so I thought, just do it now and then you will have it done.
  I need to go back to the old way of doing things, when I was actually getting a lot more done...then I had lists everywhere reminding me of things that had to be done, and by when they had to be done...That system has always worked for me in the past...

Time slips away

It has been so long since I have been here...life just seems to get hectic sometimes and the time just seems to slip away...Just today I thought, WOW, summer is almost over, there are so many things I wanted to do this summer. It seems like just yesterday I was making those plans for the things I wanted to do when summer finally got here. And now it is almost over and I have not done even one of the things I wanted to.
  So before any more time slips away, I will take one day a week and do those things that I want to do...I will enjoy the remainder of summer and then the fall.
Through the unexpected cancellation of a weekly activity, I find myself with a free afternoon...Now before it gets taken up with the mundane "to do" stuff that I find piling up, I will reserve it for a fun afternoon just for me, and whomever I choose to spend it with....
  Delightful time just for ME! Such a wonderful thought.............................

Such Fun to Make

I saw these cute little microwave bowls an could not resist making them...They are so useful, and so addictive to make. The first one took me longer than it should have, as is with most everything  when doing the first one, but after that, they just almost made themselves. Of course I had to alter the pattern instructions to suit me... I never can just do it the way the instructions say...I have to add my extras to things. The most time consuming part of making these is all the marking of the batting....